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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I made a new #PeerTube exclusive video where I talk about this script I've been developing to aggregate RSS feeds.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/irphhwFowTMngRQALHxfit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
david_megginson@mstdn.ca ("David Megginson") wrote:

Reminder: if you're a secondary-school teacher, and want to give your students a hands-on activity for learning logarithms, my site

https://cardboard-computer.org/

is free (libre and gratuit) and has no ads, analytics, or tracking cookies. You can download templates to build your own sliderule, and there are instructions and interactive exercises for using it.

(Tell them it's a steampunk calculator.)

#slideRules #teaching #math

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
cbecker@hci.social ("Christoph Becker") wrote:

What I do know is that these conversations to reimagine computing for ecological and just futures ARE taking place and that people have inspiring ideas, wonderful collaborations and fabulous results to share, including - among others - at #LIMITS2026 in two weeks, proudly independent of ACM and free to attend, everywhere at once :)

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

(AFP) The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs

https://us.afpnews.com/article/?the-indian-workers-training-ai-robots-to-take-their-jobs,B3ZX2NQ

> With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future.

> Earning just over two dollars for an hour of video, her mundane recordings are invaluable for global tech companies teaching machines how to move like humans in the real world.

> The 25-year-old is one of a growing army of thousands of AI system trainers in the world's most populous country. ...

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with spammers and frauds. Don't do it!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/please-i-beg-of-you-do-not-use-ai-in-your-business-communications/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
bentsukun@bsd.cafe ("benz") wrote:

Best #FreeBSD vulnerability, or bestest #FreeBSD vulnerability?

https://bumsrake.de/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Bumblebee wings sure beat fast. This one's wings are just a blur #photos #nature

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i was a bit worried this function was getting too long, but i just realised it's not even 50 lines 😅

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116731903645224873

(If anyone read this shitpost and immediately yelled "Hey! You did that intentionally?!" sorry I'm actually quite bad at remembering to follow up with people.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mdc@mstdn.ca ("Matt") wrote:

@soatok

Never open emails. If they're important, the sender will eventually become impatient and email my boss who will bring it up in a standup

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The day companies start paying for fursuit commissions, and scammers match their energy, some of y'all might be in trouble.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

You won a new Android phone???

Me: "Eww, why would I want a walled garden device controlled by a trillion dollar megacorp?"

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

You won a new iPhone

Me: "Eww, why would I want a walled garden device controlled by a trillion dollar megacorp?"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sudo200@layer8.space ("clang-enby") wrote:

@soatok

I love phishing mails.

They give me endpoints to dump endless output from /dev/urandom into.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Lawyers from the Secular Policy Institute, Edwina Rogers, and Jonny Monserrat have sent me a blustering, threatening demand to take down a 12-year-old blog post, reminding me that they exist, which I and most people had totally forgotten.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/11/do-you-remember/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I don't get how I'm supposed to fall for phishing

Isn't it normal to just leave people on read for years at a time? :S

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Healthcare: we are having a shortage of nurses, doctors and specialist!
Me: oh that sucks...maybe they'll lower the financial barrier to some of these roles and I can do a career switch?
Also Healthcare: Yeah, no.....
Me: never mind then I guess

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

Of course programming is art, ask any programmer the range of emotions they felt looking at someone else’s code that one time.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is insane. this is *not* leadership, and this kind of thinking is slowly killing us all

FFS ppl

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/climate/democrats-climate-change-oil-gas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Tech has given us anti-brand-praxis habit folks a gift. If your habit is to say brands maximally wrong, let me suggest that "AI" is pronounced "eye"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/world/middleeast/precision-strike-iran-water.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

UK has insane controls on speech, arresting old ladies for wearing T-shirts that say "FREE PALESTINE", but you can use a massive social media platform to whip up a pogrom and they're like "oh gee, oh no, nothing we can do 🤭" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/10/elon-musk-x-not-face-action-uk-government-posts-inciting-violence-belfast

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Aphex Ben") wrote:

No

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting Ai agents shop and pay for users

https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
balloonpup@blimps.xyz ("Lily Ingersoll / Briar") wrote:

Pride comes in all flavors, you know.

( Crayola and Ingersoll were drawn by Ecto )

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
b_rain@troet.cafe ("b-rain") wrote:

I feel seen
#adhd #autism #audhd #adhs #meme #memes #humor

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

if you're gonna force-opt me into something it should at least work?? like... why force me into something completely broken.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

so my firefox updated and there are widgets on the new tab page that are entirely broken lol. missing text, context menus that aren't filled out... wtf

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Tak@gush.taks.garden ("Tak!") wrote:

@jonny @quincy @cwebber the myth of consensual botnet

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
scheme@freiburg.social wrote:

@cwebber I'm not an LWN subscriber and reporting on this matter (outside of slop outlets) seems nonexistent thus far, but I found the PR on GitHub. I went in there not knowing that GH replaces deleted users with "ghost", and while skimming the thread for that Nathan thing thought to myself that this ghost sure was sounding like an LLM, too.

Maybe it isn't such a great idea to train your maintainers into tolerating LLM interactions. On any distro "getting left behind", this wouldn't have gotten far.